(18 Aug 2023, 8:51 pm)Storx wrote Interesting to note that the 67 Plate Streetlites and 17 Plate Streetlites at Darlington and Washington/Percy Main respectively seem awfully unreliable considering their age aswell.
Not sure how true it is but someone mentioned on here Darlington want rid of there's and they all do similar work really and they're never out beyond 6pm with either Pulsar's doing the work which are twice the age or E200 MMC's dropping in.
Unsure why Darlington's seemingly aren't out much late anymore, seems to have only become the case since the recent service changes whereas prior it was generally either a Pulsar or a Lite on evening 5 & 7 journeys at least.
I have heard a suggestion that it was requested that Arriva no longer use the 67 Plate Lites on Darlington's Moorsbus turn with the allocation typically being formed of a Sapphire 7 spec'd Pulsar since the 2021 season, yet Redcar's turn is generally allocated a Cummins engined StreetLite.